Dispatch From Spain | The Embroidery Of Señorita Lylo
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| Project - Diario de una volatil |
Today we're excited to portion the beautiful embroidery designs as well as the world of Loly Ghirardi (aka Señorita Lylo), a graphic designer based inwards Barcelona Kingdom of Spain who's career merges with her arts and crafts inwards a actually unique way. With embroidery making such a contention inwards fashion also correct now, nosotros were thrilled to come about upon her colourful world. We sent her a few questions most her work.
Q. How long conduct keep you lot been embroidering?
A. I started embroidery closed to seven years ago. I had the urge to distract my attending away from the estimator enshroud as well as acquire closer with arts and crafts materials as well as arrive at go with my hands. I’ve ever had curiosity with the crafts, every bit a kid I was an advanced crafter! I loved creating things with my hands, I used to play with clay as well as used plants/flowers every bit condiments of fictitious salads. I started to larn crochet, hence embroidery… as well as that opened the door to a whole novel the world of learning footstep yesteryear step.
I studied with dissimilar teachers, some with to a greater extent than technical profiles, others to a greater extent than playful. Summing the techniques, the tricks, visions as well as clues each of my teachers advised me, subsequently on gave me the courage to arrive at my ain style. Every sense as well as manner left its footprint as well as amongst the cocktail of stitches, textures as well as secrets, I started visualising my projects.
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| Project - Diario de una volatil |
I also shape purpose of the Barcelona based collective “La guerilla de ganxet” , where nosotros knit as well as embroider wonderful creations to surprise the populace yesteryear taking the yarn as well as thread bobbins out on the street of Barcelona, exposing those creations to say stories or claim messages most something. We commonly knit or embroider on a large scale with an XXL cross stitch, using the urban slice of furniture as well as fences or decorating an indoors staircase with geometric shapes made out of yard for an outcome of an editorial company.
The primal key to accomplish a non-traditional embroidery slice is the media you lot use. Being creative as well as imagining a sail on almost whatever surface, similar on a duo of sneakers, a gate or a slice of garment. The stitches as well as materials are the same exactly changing the surface, takes your go on a dissimilar level, it gets to a greater extent than interesting as well as to a greater extent than challenging! See to a greater extent than images here.
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| Project - La guerilla de ganxet |
Q. Do you lot sell your embroidery anywhere? Love those collars, are they for sale?
A. I’m currently inwards the middle of preparing my online store through Tictail and promise to conduct keep it available soon. I volition endure selling the embroidered collars, a notebook with instructions on apartment as well as relief stitches, as well as also an embroidery kit that includes coloured thread, needles as well as a confectioned neckband arrive at for you lot to decorate.
Q. Tell us how you lot started embroidering. We come across you lot are a graphic designer yesteryear day.
A. As a graphic designer (www.uauh.es), I wanted to innovate handcrafted notions or designs to our projects. I felt it would convey a to a greater extent than ‘human’ affect when dealing with the estimator screen. Embroidery tin endure hence various that I establish my tick as well as decided to include embroidery inwards projects that felt suitable as well as would endure a nifty match. For example, nosotros created an identity for a showroom that showcases local designers, where the logo of this showroom was embroidered. Also a recent collaboration was for the of Agustina Guerrero “Diario de una volatil” where nosotros elegantly combined illustration with embroidery. It was such a nifty exit, that I decided to brand my modify ego Señorita Lylo acquire public. Ever since then, all my embroidery go was kept inwards a drawer.
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| For the majority "Wonderland , a wonderful trip " Written yesteryear Cristina Camrena @kireeimagazine as well as illustrated yesteryear @ladydesidia |
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| Project - LeCoolBarcelona |
I’m rattling passionate inwards interpreting reality through dissimilar types of stitches. Imagining with what type of thread I tin sew together a hairstyle, mimic the texture of a sure enough stuff or a flower. The composition is important, every bit good every bit the media used every bit my working surface. If it has a story to tell, I acquire rattling motivated.
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| Project - LeCoolBarcelona |
A. Yes, I am currently working on a personal projection that consists inwards embroidering the street names where all the women inwards my household unit of measurement lived or are soundless living onto pieces of garments used yesteryear these women inwards my household unit of measurement as well as that each of them gave me to usage every bit my canvas. It’s composed yesteryear numerous pieces, starting off with a handkerchief of my nifty grandmother Maria who was from Sicily. She was a brave adult woman inwards her fourth dimension every bit amongst her 2 children crossed the body of body of water to Argentine Republic to observe a improve hereafter for her family. Passing over to my grandmother Fina who decided to alive her destiny inwards Argentina, followed yesteryear my love woman nurture Alicia, who inherited the gift of preparing delicious nutrient as well as filing with love the hearts of her children as well as terminal exactly non to the lowest degree ending inwards me who inwards my turn, is constantly searching for novel horizons hither inwards Barcelona.
Each address is a typographic composition respecting the master copy type fonts of the street names, every bit good every bit the other elements that complement the composition, similar the employment solid numbers, the traffic signals of the cities, the metropolis as well as dry soil they’ve lived in. I’ve recompiled photographs taken from my recent travels dorsum home, visiting our quondam as well as novel neighbourhoods. I aim to continue a lineal sense when edifice the compositions as well as transmit emotions when embroidering. I don’t similar working on independent pieces, exactly rather I prefer to include various elements to say the story. As a designer, I apply my vision hence every bit to the composition as well as the colours used conduct keep a meaning. Take it every bit embroidered typography.
From nifty grandmother, to grandmother, to woman nurture as well as to daughter...a generation of women laced together yesteryear passion to observe a dwelling employment solid as well as endure happy inwards it. I actually promise someday to exhibit this story inwards a gallery!
Apart from that, I’m working on 2 collaborations with dissimilar artists. One is applying my embroidery onto jeans as well as the other designing embroidery patterns for men's bow ties.
I would also similar to go on novel hands on tutorials as well as locomote closed to Kingdom of Spain to instruct them!
Q. I come across you lot are teaching an embroidery course.
A. I am extremely pleased to conduct keep been offered to instruct embroidery on the online platform Domestika, which allows access to a wider audience who wants to larn this art. I’m invited to their houses or studios through the estimator enshroud teaching them how to embroider with their ain rhythm. The community of woman individual as well as manful individual embroiderers that this course of educational activity generates, fills me with excitement. (At the moment, this course of educational activity is solely available inwards Spanish, all the same it’s possible to endure subtitled inwards English linguistic communication rattling presently to scope an fifty-fifty bigger audience). Click here for to a greater extent than info.
Thank you lot Loly! We're hence inspired!
Follow Señorita Lylo online:
Site: srtalylo.tumblr.com
Facebook: facebook.com/SrtaLylo
Instagram: instagram.com/srtalylo
